Chapter 1. Introduction

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Key Features and Benefits

Welcome to the User Manual of the <oXygen/> XML Author plugin for Eclipse ! This book explains how to use the 9.3.0 version of the <oXygen/> XML Author plugin for Eclipse effectively to author XML documents visually in a WYSIWYG like way quickly and easily.

The <oXygen/> XML Author plugin for Eclipse is a cross-platform application for authors who want to edit XML documents visually without extensive knowledge about XML and XML related technologies. The WYSIWYG like editor is driven by CSS stylesheets associated with the XML documents and offers the option to switch off XML tags completely when editing an XML document.

Key Features and Benefits

The offers the following key features and benefits.

Multiplatform availability: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, SolarisNon blocking operations, you can perform validation and transformation operations in background
Visual WYSIWYG XML editing mode based on W3C CSS stylesheets.Visual DITA Map editor
Closely integration of the DITA Open Toolkit for generating DITA outputSupport for latest versions of document frameworks: DocBook and TEI.
Outline view in sync with a non well-formed document 
Multiple built-in validation engines (Xerces, libxml, MSXML 4.0, MSXML.NET) and support for custom validation engines (Saxon SA, XSV, SQC, Intel® XML Software Suite).Multiple built-in XSLT transformers (Saxon 6.5, Saxon 9 B, Saxon 9 SA, Saxon.NET, Xalan, libxslt, MSXML 3.0 / 4.0, Microsoft .NET 1.0, Microsoft .NET 2.0), support for custom JAXP transformers and also Intel® XML Software Suite.
Ready to use FOP support to generate PDF or PS documentsXInclude support
Context sensitive content assistant driven by XML Schema, Relax NG, DTD, NVDL or by the edited document structure enhanced with schema annotation presenterNew XML document wizards to easily create documents specifying a schema or a DTD
XML Catalog supportUnicode support
Easy error tracking - locate the error source by clicking on itEasy configuration for external FO Processors
Apply XSLT and FOP transformationsXPath search and evaluation support
Preview transformation results as XHTML or XML or in your browserSupport for document templates to easily create and share documents
Batch validate selected files in projectCanonicalize and sign documents
Configurable actions key bindingsAssociate extensions with editors provided by the oXygen plugin.
Model ViewAttributes View
XSLT 2.0 full supportXPath 2.0 support
Document foldingSpell checking supporting English, German and French including locals
Pretty-printing of XML filesDrag&drop support